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Series
Handbooks of communication science volume Volume 7
Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Series
Kultur-Kommunikation-Kooperation volume Band 22
Publisher
Ibidem-Verlag
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Deutsch
Author
Language
English
Description
Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends, and confusing tweets and wall posts with authentic communication. But this relentless connection leads to a deep solitude. MIT professor Sherry Turkle argues that as technology ramps up, our emotional lives ramp down. Based on hundreds of interviews and with a new introduction taking us...